Tyaedalis Wrote:couls someone post a small program that would just show images? if you do, please include the image files! i just want to see which commands and such are needed. maybe a keyboard input code too?

This kind of stuff is not for beginner C programmers. Stick to text only programs for the moment if you want to learn C. If you want to jump right into high-level stuff, start with a higher level language like objective-C, Ruby, Python, or Lua. That said, you may want to check out SDL. It's a C library which simplifies these tasks.

I'd strongly suggest learning objective-C + Cocoa if you're in a hurry to do such high level things (on the Mac, anyway).

Tyaedalis Wrote:yeah, i want to learn objective-c+cocoa. and SDL can work with objective-c, too right?

Yes, you can get SDL to work with objective-C... but why? One of the main advantages of SDL is that it's cross-platform (as opposed to Cocoa, which is pretty much Mac-only). About the only thing Cocoa doesn't give you is a simplified HID input (joystick/gamepad) API. Cocoa by itself should have everything you need at the moment.